Our Staff

Jason P. Drucker is the Director of Development and Operations at The Opportunity Agenda. In that role, he serves as chief fundraiser; oversees finance, accounting, and human resources; and develops arts and culture work that integrates into social justice initiatives.

Eleni oversees the organization’s communications research operations and initiatives. In her role, she provides strategic consultation on communications and research projects for numerous social justice leaders and groups across the country; creates and supports coalitions of nonprofits to increase the effectiveness of their communications campaigns and build public support for social justice; and designs and authors research studies to translate their findings to communications strategy. Eleni works on media outreach on a project-basis and does  extensive public-speaking experience.

During her career, Eleni has successfully helped design and implement a variety of communications, advocacy, and electoral campaigns for non-profit organizations, the arts, candidates for public office, and consumer goods. Further, she has worked in public relations and journalism globally, including in London & Edinburg, UK, Athens, Greece, and Alexandria, Egypt.

Eleni is an American Express Fellow in the Emerging Nonprofit Women Leaders Program by the National Council for Research on Women (2010-2011), Membership Chair of the New York chapter of the American Association of Public Opinion Research, and on tBoard of Directors of the New York University Alumni Association.

As the Public Opinion and Media Research Associate at The Opportunity Agenda, Jill designs and authors public opinion and media research publications for strategic communications, consults on strategic communications initiatives through the lens of public opinion and media research, spearheads the evaluative research efforts, and provides in-house statistical expertise. Jill has authored numerous publications and has presented on human rights, reproductive justice, and economic opportunity research. Jill is the co-editor of the Public Opinion Monthly, a blog that synthesizes and analyzes public opinion research on a variety of social justice issues.

Jill was selected by Oxfam America to be co-leader of its New York City Action Corps, and is undergoing extensive leadership, communications, and spokesperson training relating to organizing and advocacy around global poverty and food justice issues. In addition, Jill sits on the advisory board for Musicianwages.com, a community for working musicians that advocates for a robust musician middle-class. She is also an active member of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), having been selected to pilot a new mentoring program, and participating in the abstract review and selection process for the 2012 professional conference.

Jill holds an M.S. In Applied Social Research from Hunter College, CUNY, and a B.S. in Finance from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.

Ross has provided strategic development consulting to a wide variety of New York non-profits, including Northside Center for Child Development, Jewish Association for Services for the Aged (JASA), and Issue Project Room.  His background in advocacy and strategic communications includes work on campaign finance reform, young voter turnout, and a number of state and local electoral campaigns in San Francisco and Wisconsin.  

As an arts administrator, theater director, and writer, Betsy has spent the last 20 years advocating for emerging and underserved voices in the arts. Most recently, she served as a Program Officer at the Ford Foundation in Media, Arts and Culture overseeing a national portfolio on indigenous and place-based arts organizations and cultural communities. Prior to that, she was the Director of Public Programs for the Pequot Museum, the country’s largest tribal museum and research center.

Chuy leads field training on messaging and media communications for allies in the social justice field around the country, with a focus on human rights advocates working on immigration issues in the American South. The emphasis is on designing, conducting, and evaluating trainings on messaging, media readiness, oral presentation, and other communications skills with a wide range of advocates, policymakers, artists, and other social justice leaders. 

Robert brings more than five years of experience in communications, online strategies, and public advocacy. Most recently, he served as a communications consultant for Urban Strategies, where he coordinated the efforts of web maintenance and e-newsletter content. Previously, he joined the online communications team at the Center for American Progress, where he worked on an array of activities, including copyediting and web content management through CMS and CRM systems, social media administration, email and e-newsletter delivery, and the translation of web content for the Center’s version in Spanish.